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Distribution of activity concentration and dose rates in selected coastal areas on western and eastern Black Sea

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Radioactivity measurements were performed, at the east (Georgia) and west (Romania) part of the Black Sea, for natural radionuclides and 137Cs in collected water and sediment samples using lab-based and in situ gamma-ray spectrometry. The activity concentrations of 137Cs at Georgian area in the sediment and seawater ranged between 20 to 50 Bq kg−1 and 8 to 25 Bq m−3, respectively while at the Romanian area the activity concentration ranged from 10 to 30 Bq kg−1 and 3 to 15 Bq m−3, respectively. The activity concentration values of 7Be at the Georgian area reached values up to (30 ± 4) Bq kg−1. The induced dose rates to marine organisms in both areas estimated by the ERICA assessment tool were much lower than the screening value of 10 μGy h−1.

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This study was a part of the research project SGD Black Sea (ERA,NET) and the EU project BlackSeaHazNet within the FP7 framework founded by the European Commission.

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  1. Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 46.7 km Athens-Sounio Ave, 19013, Anavyssos, Greece

    Christos Tsabaris, Georgios Eleftheriou, Dionisis L. Patiris, Effrosyni G. Androulakaki & Filothei K. Pappa

  2. Mikheil Nodia Institute of Geophysics, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, 1 Aleksidze Str, 0179, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Nino Kapanadze & George Melikatze

  3. Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Zografou Campus, 15780, Zografou, Greece

    Filothei K. Pappa

  4. GeoEcoMar, 23-25 Dimitrie Onciul Str, 024053, Bucharest, Romania

    Gyongyi Ruzsa

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Tsabaris, C., Eleftheriou, G., Patiris, D.L. et al. Distribution of activity concentration and dose rates in selected coastal areas on western and eastern Black Sea. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 321, 169–181 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-019-06562-1

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